Greater New Orleans

A teenager plays in the water near the Mandeville seawall, which is buried beneath the waters of Lake Pontchartrain due to Tropical Storm Lee, Sunday September 4, 2011.
(TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE)

Storm surge flooding is in the news in St. Tammany Parish these days. Parish President Pat Brister was in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to lobby for more flood protection, and tonight in Mandeville two Mandeville City Council members are hosting a community meeting to present some proposed flood solutions.

First, tonight's meeting. Mandeville council members Ernest Burguieres and Rick Danielson are hosting the meeting at Nuvolari's restaurant on Girod Street at 5:30. They'll discuss storm surge flooding in Old Mandeville and present some alternatives to dealing with it. Here's the story.

Tonight's meeting is one of two in which Mandeville residents can discuss flooding. On Sept. 30 a community will be held for GEC Engineers to solicit input for a study the company is doing on the city's storm surge flooding problems. Here's a story about the GEC contract.

Meanwhile, Brister said her trip to D.C. went well and that she spoke with several members of the state's delegation to push for more St. Tammany flood protection. Check out this story.